Ends Quote by Salman Rushdie

“Memory's truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it…

— Salman Rushdie

Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Memory narrativises itself.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them.

— Rebecca McClanahan

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

— Joan Didion

Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by…

— Samuel Johnson

Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more…

— Joshua Foer

[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent…

— Elie Wiesel

Every time you recall a memory, you're basically making another copy of it and, at that same point, it is susceptible to new changes…

— Pete Docter

Memory is a code to who we are, a collection of not just dates and facts but also of epic emotional struggles, epiphanies, transformations.

— David Grann

Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.

— Ray Bradbury

For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places…

— Stefan Zweig